Some people suggest that if you dabble in the spiritual, a demon or something of the sort is going to get you sooner or later.

So how has it gone for the long time spiritual seekers/adventurers on this site? I don't get the impression that you've had any significant problems. In fact, you've probably experienced a lot of positive things.

Just think how things would be if you were afraid to do a little exploration.

My feeling is that a lot of fear based ideologies were conceived by teachers etc. who want to control their followers.

I'm not saying that nothing can pop in when you venture to places other than the physical World. But whatever would pop in would just be a spirit who is attached to the physical World. If you ask for protection from your guides, you're likely to get it. Does anybody have any experience with guide protection?


Sorry for such a long question.

Perhaps what one person might experience as a demon another might perceive differently.  It certainly appears that people interpret everything differently in life and I would expect it to be the same in the afterlife. 

I know that for me, a frightening dream will almost immediately wake me.  I don't seem to have any tolerance for lengthy negative experiences anymore. 

In everyday life if I am around a person who I perceive as giving off deliberate negative energy I eventually find myself directing my attention in a different direction.  As I age negativity is easier for me to recognize in myself and others.

Why stay there in negativity?  No one can hold us there can they?  It's often best to just leave it behind, but first you must believe that you can.

If I find myself late at night surrounded in some persistent negative thought forms I often remember my huge, soft wings.  Are they mine or are they my angel's wings?  I don't know.  But they immediately enfold me fully when I remember them....and nothing can penetrate the wings of an angel.

love, blink

Having recently been accused of being possessed by/following demons..all I can say is "oh, boy!"

I KNOW I am not dealing with demons..

Hi recoverer,
I'm not really long exploring out there, just a little over a year, but busy, if I'm allowed to say. I never had problems with bad spirits and never had fear. Don't know what my guides are doing in the background, but sometimes it seems it was the other way round, my guides must protect others from me, ha ha!, yeah, they sometimes hold me back when I'm too curious or they put a camouflage shield around me once when I was visiting the belief system territory. I would just recommend to have some tricks ready to work for the case of an ugly encounter, to have a shield, or be like air, or the emergency-back-in-the-body etc.
Bye, spooky

A statistic is needed: What percentage of explorers of what type of explorings are having mostly benefit and mostly destruction with it?
bye, spooky

Some of this discussion reminds me of a class I took on safe driving.

The instructor had many years of experience.  He had also witnessed many accidents, including ones that were fatal and ones that had pretty gruesome injuries.

So, with that kind of background, he of course warned the kids of all the potential dangers on the highways if they were not careful, and if they didn't take driving seriously.

Thing is, when he showed some of the more graphic pictures of broken bodies, some of the kids thought it was pretty funny.  Lots of snickering.  Was it sort of a defense mechanism, a way of dealing with stuff that people would rather not think about?  Maybe.

But there was also the impression that such warnings were really not that relevant to them.  Not gonna happen, in other words, along with the feeling that the instructor was purposely exaggerating the dangers.  Hey, they hadn't actually seen any horrible accidents themselves, nor had any of their friends, so not to worry.

I think some folks on this board who trivialize the warnings about afterlife exploration are a lot like some of the kids in that class.  As is true with just about everything in life, experience is the best teacher.  Unfortunately, it can also be a painful way to learn. 

R 

I heard Dannion Brinkley on ...John Holland, is it, with the radio show? Someone called in and asked if hexes worked.

The answer was that they aren't real but if you put energy into them then they work, ie your beliefs make them work.

Demons must be the same.

Does the Law of Attraction apply here?
We attract to ourselves what we ourselves are.

If we try to reach the 'highest' that we know of and do whatever we might decide to do, for the best of reasons, then this should be our safeguard - that is, if we feel the need of one.